Religiosity and Innovation Attitudes: An Instrumental Variables Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Estimating the influence of religion on innovation is challenging because of both complexness and endogeneity. In order to untangle these issues, we use several measures of religiosity, adopt an individual-level approach to innovation and employ the instrumental variables method.
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On World Religion Adherence Distribution Evolution [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Religious adherence can be considered as a degree of freedom, in a statistical physics sense, for a human agent belonging to a population. The distribution, performance and life time of religions can thus be studied having in mind heterogeneous interacting agent modeling in mind.
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Religion in the cosmological ideas in Ukraine (from XI to XVII century) [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Cosmology, whose object is the Universe, is in contact with the religion closer than any other science. We will try to trace the historical change of views on the universe in Ukraine from XI to XVII centuries and show the influence of religion in the construction of the models of the Universe in that time.
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The Synodal Process in the Dock: A Thematic Analysis of Grey Literature
ScientiaThis article aimed to describe the contours of the current discourse on the synodal process from the perspectives of journalists. To achieve this goal, we collected a large sample of grey literature (N= 235) from six online Catholic newspapers.
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Multidimensionality of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study among Secular Individuals
Religions, 2019 This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models—the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional ...
Sarah Demmrich, Stefan Huber
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Science, Religion and the Teaching of Evolution [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 This essay discusses the relationship between science and religion, specifically the controversy elicited by an article by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, criticizing the scientific establishment for ruling out intelligent design as beyond discussion. He also criticizes the judge's decision in Kitzmiller vs.
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What Einstein meant when he said "God does not play dice ..." [PDF]
Resonance Volume 13, Number 7, pp. 655-661 (July 2008), 2013 We analyze Einstein's views on God and religion, and his views on Quantum Mechanics.
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What do Asian Religions Have in Common? An Unsupervised Text Analytics Exploration [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The main source of various religious teachings is their sacred texts which vary from religion to religion based on different factors like the geographical location or time of the birth of a particular religion. Despite these differences, there could be similarities between the sacred texts based on what lessons it teaches to its followers.
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Identity, race and faith: The role of faith in post-Apartheid South Africa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 South Africa has experienced an unprecedented influx of migrants in the 21st century. Immigration and race have contributed to the raising of important questions of identity and social inclusion.
John Klaasen
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They have killed your prophets: Roman Catholic Church priests in Nigeria and (non)state actors
Theologia ViatorumThis article examines why Roman Catholic priests are targeted by kidnappers and Islamic extremists in Nigeria. Although there have been studies carried out on kidnapping in Nigeria, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge, the literature on why Roman ...
Favour C. Uroko
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